Metal-banding implement



(No Model-) I METAL BANDING IMPLEMENT.

No. 566,663. Patented Au 11, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY S. BACON, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

METAL-BANDING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,663, dated August 11, 1896.

' Application filed November 18,1895. Serial no. 569,239. (NomodeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY S. BACON, of Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Metal-Banding Implements, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specifically defined in the appended claim.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a banding implement embodying my present invention. Fig. 2 is a view the reverse of Fig. 1, the outer part of the levers being broken away. Figs. 3 and 4 show details to be described.

My present invention relates to the banding implement heretofore invented by me and patented July 12, 1887, No. 366,293, to which reference may be had; and it consists in divers devices and the combinations thereof, as will be next herein described, and then defined in the appended claim.

Referring again to said drawings, A represents a lever having at one end a suitable handle a and at the opposite end awire-grip, to be described.

B represents a shorter lever pivoted at l) to lever A and at its opposite end provided with a wire-grip, to be described.

0 is a lever provided with a suitable handle f at its outer end, while its opposite end is pivoted to lever B at c, and a linkD is at one end pivoted to lever A, while its opposite end is pivoted to lever O at d, as shown.

For the purpose of gripping the wire employed for banding boxes and other packages I form the outer ends of levers A and B with a stud g at right angles thereto. I also pivot upon said levers, adjacent to stud g, a grip ping-plate h, secured by screw and provided with thumb-ears t' t' for manipulating it. Mounted upon screw j is the coiled spring is, one end of which is secured in plate h and the other to the lever on which said plate is mounted. Said plates h are at the end next to stud g, formed oblique to the line of the axis and so that as they swing inward their end approaches stud g, as is shown in Fig. 1, and said spring 7c tends constantly to move said plates inward, and as the wire from the right is held by the grip at the left and that at the left held by the grip at the right therefore the constant tendency of the wire is to swing plates it close to studs g, and the springs in are so formed that they have the same tendency. l-Ience plates h are swung away from studs g to introduce the wire between them, and the springs grip the wire as soon as plates hfare released from the hand of the operator.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination with levers A, B, C, and link 1), arranged to operate substantially as described, said levers A and B each formed with a rounded stud g projecting at right angles from the plane thereof, gripping-plates h formed with ears '6 secured upon levers A, B, actuated by a spring 70 arranged upon the pivot bolt j of said plates, and with said plates formed with an oblique toothed face adjacent to studs 9, to hold the wire in place, substantially as specified.

. HENRY S. BACON.

Witnesses:

T. W. PORTER, A. F. Srown 

